Off Brand

How Under Armour Bet Everything on the Wrong Customer

The athletic-gear company made the mistake of obsessing too much over its most influential customers

Rob Walker
Marker
Published in
4 min readMar 6, 2020

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Illustration: Fran Caballero

AA year ago, Under Armour founder Kevin Plank was as blunt as he could be about the company’s strategy: “We’re going to double down on performance.” At its core, this…

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